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Definition of Dotards
1. dotard [n] - See also: dotard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dotards
Literary usage of Dotards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"trees are blown down, which are in their nature timber, but are dotards without
any timber in them (/'), or if such are wrongfully severed by the lessor, ..."
2. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"12 Some with/ Bucks on childless dotards fawn S. iii. 130 The silly bard grows/,
or falls away S. v. 303 Lords of/ E'sharn, or of Lincoln fen S, vi. ..."
3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John Smith (1867)
"then persuade him that he ought not to hear nor listen to the advice of those
old dotards or counsellors that were heretofore his enemies : when,' God ..."
4. History of Roman Literature: From It's Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1823)
"... rather exposed the dreams of dotards than the opinions of philosophers; and
whoever considers how rashly and inconsiderately their tenets are advanced, ..."
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